Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-15
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ROME DRY.
Remarkable Scenes at the Voting
Places Of Rome, Ga.-The Cues
tion Of Selling Liquor.
Women and Children Gather at tho Court
house and Work For Their Ticket.
go siority.

. VI omen ana ClllOTen NI1LIGT at tho NOQTt
house and Work For Their Ticket.
go Majority.
Louisville Courier journal
ATLANTA, GA, July IO.-The prohi.
o.tion election N Rome yesterday, which
resulted in an overwhelming victory for
ire dry ticket, has settled the question
that the remaining fourteen counties in
which whisky is sold must 90 dry, and
that before six months Georgia will be SIS
absolutely CRY as Maine. Rome Is a city
nf 1900 Inhabitants, situated IN Floyd,
The most popuIOUs white county IN the
state. Fer more than forty days the
. contest has ragged, growing t9rcer IS the
day 81 election approached. Two years
ago isst February GI election was held
resulting in victory for the wet" ticket
by several hundred majority. 1t was
felt, however, 81 that time ard ever since
+ that the result was not 3 fair expression
Of the peoples will The election had
( been called by the liquor men in mid
winter. There was no registration law.
I Ii was thought that many Illegal votes
were cast, and great barbecue given by
the saloon people on election day at
tracted hundreds Of negroes to Rome;
hence, when the Rev. Sam jones' revival
occurred about TWO months ago, it was
but natural that the question should
again become prominent. 1t wss felt
/ that this question should be fairly cub
mitted 20 Tie people on It's merits,
+ especially SIS in the meantime the great
contest nad been fought and won in At
laut5, and the danger CT fraud was greatly
. lessensa by the registration law low in
force. So Just before the close Of the re-
yiyal a conference of ministers from oil
parts e tle county was held, and it was
resolved 10 pccacb, pay and woEk for
prohibition.
The ELECTION ORDERED.
Petitions we're drawn up requesting the
Ordinary 10 call 81 election Ct CT early
DAY. Theee petitions were Signed by
more :bsn one thousand voters The
Ordinary called an election for July O.,
and me contest opened in eGrneS.. IN
executive committee wSs organized, with
y. Is. HsmiitOn IS chairman and CSptain
i. 3. :. 1lCsely is secretary. Shortly
thereafter 2 young moE's prohibition
club Y5s organized, with Hon. Sea0orn
Wright Is chairman and Mr.. Junius +.
Hllycr as secretary. Clues we're also or
gsniz il al parts Of tn county. Pc
hlb.Ion and Gn-i-pc04ibition meetings
were held almost daily. The columns Of
the Bulletin for prohibition sld IF the
Courier against prohibition, were flied
with arguments, pro and con, SIS we'll IS
wish personalities which al times were
rather bitter.
The Gay opened bright and beautiful.
At sunrise there were prayer-meetiEEs At
the churches which continued during the
entire day. \ large number of business
houses were closed and the city had q
Sunday appearance, except that the
streets were crowded with people. 81
O'Clock in the morning the leading PIohi-
0itiOnists and Observation-Disclosures had
assembled at The Apollo. Among the
former we've scores Of
RoAIE'S FAIREST DAUGHTERS
and large number OF children. The la
dies and children took their stand in front
Of the courthouse, little 90 the left of
the entrance, and here they remained
with tigeleSs patience throughout the en-
tire day. It was 9 remarkable scene.
Here were aged mothers whose hair was
silvcrcd with the frosts of years, young
maids and matrOEs and lovely children,
ali deeply interested in the result OF the
great contest. Many men who assembled
the courthouse steps holding Hrti-0rOhi-
bitten tickets IN their hands WaverGd
when they faced this living bulWark OF
women and voted The prohibition
tickets given them by fair hands. The
presence of the ladies gained, st 2 mod
crate estimate, st least leo votes for the
prohibition cause: The singing of the
familiar hymns was a feature Of the days
incidents. Occasionally large bodies Of
prohibition voters would march TO the
polls, aad these were greeted with
cheers, wavIng Of handkerChiefsand h5ppy
SMILES or THE LADIES.
Sir. J. 3. Patton marched st the head
Of fOrty-three voters, who were received
with enthusiasm. 4 little in the rear of
the courthouse booths were erected
where refreshments we're served by the
ladies. Many flags and banners were
displayed. Among the inscriptions we're
these:
"a vote against the saIe is & vote to
save our BOY"
"yote the way you think, believe and
pray
mo saloons means more clothing and
For God and home end native land,
For truth and right we take our stand.
The ants used red flags without in
scription. Nearly Gil the prohIbiticnists
wore blue badges, and the ants red. !
From the FIRST the contest vas not doubt |
full; by lG O'Clock 200 votes had been /
cast in Rome precinct, snd twO-thirds of |
these were fCT prohibition. Reports |
from the county precincts showed hand [
some prohibition majOTides, and the I!
saloon people seemed respondent.
Toward noon they rallied somewhat |
and paraded the streets with bands and |
banners. The prOhi5itioGists also pa /
raded, and their procession was much .
larger than thSt of their opponents. |
From noon until the polls closed there |
were but few Incidents of note. About .
o'clock the FOTestvills Prohibition ClID .
TO the polls in solid phqlanx
amid great cheering. Ia the meantime .
the ants had retired from the contest in
& great measure. When the clock struck /
THE sCENE AT THE COURTHOUSE
wss indeScribable. 1t was known that
prohibition had certainly carried, and it
was only question Of majority. Proba-
big 1000 men, women end children was
assembled in ard arc md the courthouse.
and cheer GfteT cheer rent the air. Many
were overcome with emotion, and wept.
Such a scene was never before witnessed
IN Rome. Suddenly there was hush,
and with DR.. Kendall and J. Il. Gibbons
Is leaders, the vast multitude sang
Nearer lily God to Thee" followed by
The doxolcgy. After benediction. the
great crowd slowly dispersed. The re-
turns were being received at the court
house sll night Hundreds of peOnle